"Crimes like that of Orlando Figuera can never be repeated again. These people cannot return, they cannot return with their fascism, they can never return with their hatred," the president asserted. | Photo: Presidential Press

Caracas, June 4 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, warned this Monday that the extreme right seeks to implement scenarios of violence similar to those that occurred in 2014 and 2017 with the "guarimbas" or violent street protests.

During his program "Con Maduro +," the Bolivarian leader recalled the murder of young Orlando Figuera, who suffered "first and second degree burns by a violent mob."

"Orlando Figuera became a symbol of a hate crime of fascism; 2017, on a day like today, they called for that hatred.  That is the hatred they want to bring back to Venezuela, for us Venezuelans to confront each other and kill each other.  They have awakened that hatred of violence in sectors and it is the main bet that the extreme right makes in Venezuela," he warned.

The president expressed to the Venezuelan people that it is necessary to care for peace and, in the face of hatred, "cultivate love, coexistence, solidarity, tolerance and respect."

"Crimes like that of Orlando Figuera can never be repeated again.  These people cannot return.  They cannot return with their fascism.  They can never return with their hatred," he asserted.

In this regard, he called on King Felipe VI and the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, to request that those involved in the Figuera death be handed over to the Justice of the South American country so that they can be judged for the incident.

The Venezuelan Executive responded to comments made by some opposition candidates, ahead of the presidential elections on July 28th, stating that "during election times they try to put on a disguise of dialogue, they put on a disguise of a democratic costume.”

"Let's find out who puts on the costume.  Who of them has the capacity to take the reins of the country? I ask, who of them has the capacity and a true government program in favor of the people?" 

Likewise, he confirmed that "the patarucos who are in an uproar against Maduro know that Maduro is not a weak, manipulable man, nobody's puppet, because they know that this man who is here was forged in struggles, he had Hugo Chávez as a teacher."

The president also spoke about the overwhelming victory of the elected president of Mexico, who attended the elections for the Let's Keep Making History coalition, Claudia Sheinbaum.

"It was an overwhelming victory.  The left of Mexico crushed the extremist right and with an overwhelming victory they guaranteed the peace of Mexico," he said and asserted that "Mexico's victory signals a progressive direction for the left and the advancement of the forces that we would like to see.  It is a great triumph for Latin America and the Caribbean."